Turns out Osgood Perkins’ Longlegs isn’t the only independent serial-killer movie to make a splash this year. In late August, Strange Darling, by writer/director JT Mollner (2016’s Outlaws and Angels), landed in the US to a 100% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Not only that, it was warmly endorsed on 🅺X by no less than Stephen King: "It’s really terrific," wrote the horror author, "… a clever masterpiece."
Separated into six chapters (plus an epilogue) presented in non-linear fashion, this horror-thriller at first appears like it might be a bit too clever for its own good. But𒁃 before long it emerges that the time-hopping, flip-flopping structure is actually in place for shrewd narrative reasons. Our initial assumptions are craftily toyed with as we’re drip-fed titbits of information while watching a one-night stand spiral into a spree of killings in the state of Oregon.
Boasting great music cues, vivid 35mm lensing (by, of all people, Avatar actor Giovanni Ribisi, who her🦹e makes his classy debut as director of photography), and engaging gender politics that esta📖blish Mollner’s interest in more than just the thrill of the chase, Strange Darling is a slick game of cat and mouse.
That it keeps viewers invested and wired throughout is also down to a brace of terrific central performances: Kyle Gallner (2022’s Scream, Smile) oozes charm and menace as The Demon, while Willa Fitzgerald (澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Scream: The TV Series, Reacher), simply🍰 credited as The Lady, is sure as hell gonna ma🍷ke sure that he remembers her name
Strange Darling iౠs released in UK cinemas on September 20 and is in US theaters now.
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